Re: [PATCH 6/6] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Disable interrupts on removal

[Jon Hunter]

On 28/10/15 06:53, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:57:02AM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>>>> How about just calling free_irq()? That's how you'd typically handle this.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, however, the interrupt is requested by devm_request_irq(). I guess
>>>> I could call devm_free_irq() here?
>>>
>>> Just use request_irq() instead of devm_request_irq(). You have the same
>>> issue on the error path in the probe function anyway and also need to add
>>> the free_irq() before the tasklet_kill() there as well.
>>
>> I was wondering about that but the tasklets should never be scheduled if
>> the probe does not succeed, so I think it is ok.
> 
> This is actually very racy, if probe fails but due to devm_ calls your irq
> is alive till it freed by core
> 
> And a faulty device triggering irq can complicate matters, so for irq IMHO
> we don't get much benefit with devm_ variant

That's fine, I will drop the devm_ usage here then.

Jon

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